Things that Bansai left for us

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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying'"
— Alice Walker

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2010, 10:33 pm
What about "Why is the cat meowing?"

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"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. "
— Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia
March 25, 2009, 12:46 am
In all fairness, he lived centuries before J Danforth Quayle.

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"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. "
— Dan Quayle

banzsaisequoia
February 23, 2010, 4:53 am
It would be a flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars to send a probe to Dan Quayle's cranium to verify that space is, indeed, infinite.
pootie49
May 20, 2011, 3:31 pm
nope, just got to take a peek in his ear...you can see right thru ....mt mt mt.

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"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
— Dan Quayle

bansaisequoia
October 15, 2011, 7:58 pm
In Dan Quayle's cranium, space is still a high priority.

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"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."
— Alf Landon

bansaisequoia
October 24, 2009, 11:46 pm
This sounds like an utterance of Danforth Quayle.

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"It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains."
— Elizabeth II

pootie49
April 20, 2009, 10:34 pm
Finally a reference to Canada, a few more would be nice!!!
bansaisequoia
September 16, 2009, 7:49 pm
"I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain."--Jacques Cartier Referring to what would be called "Canada"
pootie49
January 6, 2010, 2:12 pm
"Canada is a country of quiet dignity"
pootie49
July 5, 2011, 12:31 am
Yanno when the Royals come here we pay for their trip. Arent we nice? They being so poor and all. Yep we stick em in a Motel 8 and everything. wif the vibrating beds, Liz says she loves those.
LLapp
November 30, 2015, 8:13 pm
I am very sorry, but at first glance I thought she was Queen of Banana.
abra
March 31, 2016, 2:43 pm
I couldn't see how that word was going to be anything but BANANA.
badbob
August 21, 2016, 11:45 am
so she is not queen of panama?

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"Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either."
— Assyrian Proverb

bansaisequoia
September 18, 2009, 10:29 pm
Type faster.
LLapp
September 16, 2014, 1:16 pm
No tricks, just practice and a fast connection. Here's a video to prove it: (link)
Synonymous
March 17, 2020, 1:44 am
Yes, thanks for the link LLapp. I've used it several times when solvers question now some players can be so fast. Bansai was one of the GREATS.

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"There are no speed limits on the road to success."
— David W. Johnson

bansaisequoia
October 15, 2009, 8:14 pm
That's why some people are overnight sensations. And then they crash and burn overnight.

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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. "
— Albert Camus

bansaisequoia
September 11, 2009, 6:20 pm
How could one consigned to eternal punishment be happy?

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"A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year."
— Dixie Lee Ray

pootie49
April 5, 2009, 2:06 am
y'all come back now ya hear
bansaisequoia
October 10, 2009, 8:40 pm
Specious. I could also say that no has died from nuclear attack in the 21st Century, therefore nuclear weapons are infinitely safer. Why has no one yet developed the cold fusion reactor? It could solve quite a number of global problems.

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"I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long."
— Madame de Sevigne

bansaisequoia
March 19, 2010, 11:43 pm
I'm pretty dull when I wake up in the morning.
bansaisequoia
March 2, 2012, 7:29 pm
If I get up in the morning.

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"I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. "
— Bob Dylan

bansaisequoia
May 22, 2009, 9:01 pm
Hydroponic gardens and synthetic bovine tissue processors?

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"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. "
— Helen Rowland

bansaisequoia
July 24, 2009, 11:08 pm
She must have said that last century.

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"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
— Dorothy Parker

bansaisequoia
September 5, 2012, 11:11 pm
In her day, she was probably considered more vulgar than Sarah Silverman.

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"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."
— Harry S. Truman

bansaisequoia
April 26, 2011, 5:11 am
I guess that's why Nixon resigned.

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"I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member. "
— Groucho Marx

bansaisequoia
September 12, 2009, 12:18 am
Woody Allen cites this quote in his Oscar winning film, "Annie Hall."

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"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. "
— Herbert Marshall McLuhan

bonszaisekuoia
February 27, 2010, 7:39 pm
Did you see him in "Annie Hall?"

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"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
— Popular Mechanics, March 1949

bansaisequoia
April 8, 2012, 5:12 pm
In all fairness, I'm sure they did for one brief moment in time.

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"The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
November 5, 2012, 4:14 am
What if you use sporks and Chinette?